Re: Revising full standards

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

--On 11. desember 2007 06:22 -0500 Iain Calder <ic56 at rogers.com> wrote:

> I think that, for implementors and adopters alike, a
> single, absolute definition is too simplistic a view to
> be meaningful in today's world.  Merely renaming the STD
> series won't solve the problem of deciding when/if the
> STD-10 / IETF-EMAIL pointer should be changed from RFC-821
> to RFC-2821.  But that's a bigger can of worms.
>
> BTW, can anyone point me to documentation of previous
> attempts to solve that bigger can of worms?

The archives and meeting notes from the late NEWTRK working group should 
prove interesting, albeit not uplifting, reading.

In particular, draft-ietf-newtrk-repurposing-isd and 
draft-otis-newtrk-rfc-set should be entertaining.

The WG was shut down without reaching a conclusion.

             Harald




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